Bethesda Almost Made ‘Game of Thrones’ Game, Stopped Because Of Skyrim. Swear Words.

Game of Thrones is a perfect source material for some fucking fantasy RPGing. Right? It practically screams adapt me, be it as a classic RPG or some sort of Bethesda beast of modernity. And it almost happened, but then came fucking Skyrim.

Joystiq:

“We wanted to do our own world. That’s where we wanted to put out time into. Before we were even making Skyrim, there was a conversation with George R.R. Martin’s people,” studio head Todd Howard told EGM. “They thought it would be a good match – and so did we, actually – but then we thought about if that was where we wanted to spend our time. It was tempting, though.”

The masthead gets a bit drippy just thinking about it.